Design & Technology

With our extensive range of technical and support staff, proven design and management know-how and a range of configurable products and systems we support our customers from concept design to through-life management.

Babcock works as a Tier 1 management partner, systems provider/integrator and design services engineer according to the needs of the customer and the platform or project.

Our capability is delivered through an extensive multi-discipline engineering resource, based around the UK, Canada and Australia. Our core staff of engineers and professional project managers and specialists exceeds 1,300; this is combined with dedicated integration, test and commissioning resources.

In addition to providing multi-discipline design services for new programmes and in-service vessels and facilities, we invest in the development of a wide range of specialist systems and equipment for naval and other defence applications.

We retain selected critical manufacturing processes, plus hardware and software integration and test in-house - maintaining our production engineering and technology development know-how. Our customers tell us that bringing together theoretical and practical engineering expertise in flexible integrated teams is a distinctive and valued capability.

Our engineering expertise spans all disciplines, from naval architecture through mechanical, electrical, electronic and control systems, to software development. This is supported by extensive analysis capability ranging from computational fluid dynamics to non-linear finite element analysis, plus safety, HF and ARM. We are experienced in design from platform level, through systems down to equipment level. Our design process begins at requirements definition and runs through the full lifecycle.